Tag: Ta-Nehisi Coates

  • Arts & Culture

    Summer in the city

    Get out your calendar and start planning — this summer brings music, comedy, plays, spoken word, movies, and more to the Boston area.

    11–17 minutes
    A visitor takes a photo of a painting on the wall at the Harvard Art Museum.
  • Campus & Community

    Probing how colleges benefited from slavery

    Hundreds of listeners from Harvard and beyond packed a Radcliffe auditorium on Friday for a series of wrenching discussions about the historical role of universities in the propagation of slavery.…

    7–11 minutes
    Universities and Slavery: Bound by History is a daylong conference stage with speaker.
  • Arts & Culture

    Time to turn the page

    A look at notable work by Harvard authors in 2015 wouldn’t be complete without their own best reads of the year.

    2–4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    What’s past is prologue

    Celebrated author and journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates discussed how U.S. policy on criminal justice today is still deeply enmeshed with the nation’s fraught racial legacy.

    3–5 minutes